The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-03-17

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tation. The parlor and the kitchen do not
always harmonize. To get good service
\ and to keep it is one Of the great questions
of the country. Sometimes 1t may be the
arrogancy and inconsiderateneB OF em-
ployers; but whatever be the fact, we all
admit there ore these insect annoyances
winRing their way out from the culinary
department. If the grace Of God be not in
the heart of the house-keeper, she cannot
maintain her equilibrium. The men come
| home at night and hear the story Of these
| annoyauces, and say, "Ohl these home
troubles are very little things" They are
small as wasps. but they sting. Martha's
nerves were all unstrung when she rushed
In asking Christ to reprove Mary, and there
are tens of thousands Of women who are
dying stung to death by these pestiferous
domestic annoyances. The Lord sent the
hornet,
These small insect disturbances may also
come in the shape of business irritations.
There are men here who went through 1857
and Sept. "a, 1869, without losing their
balance, who are every day unhorsed by
little annoyances-a clerks i'll manners, or
blot of ink on bill Of lading, or the ex-
travagance Of partner who overdraws his
account, or the undertaking by business
rival, or the whispering of business conf
dences in the street, or the making of some
little bad debt which was against your
Judgment, Just to please somebody else. 1t
is not the panics that kill the merchants.
Panics come only once in ten or twenty
years. 1t is the constant din of these
everyday annoyances which is sending SO
many of our best merchants into nervous
dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave.
When our national commerce fell flat on
its face, these men stood up and felt al
most defiant; but their life is giving way
now under the swarm of these pestiferous
annoyances. The Lord sent the hornet.
have noticed In the history of some Of
my congregation that their annoyances are
multiplying, and they have hundred
where they used TO have ten. The natu-
ralist tells Us that wasp sometimes has O
family Of 10000 wasps, and it does seem
as if every annoyance of your life bred Q
million. By the help Of God to-day,
want TO show you the other side. The
hornet is Of no use? Oh, yesi The natu-
ralist tells US they are very important in
the worlds economy; they kill spiders and
they clear the atmosphere; and I really be-
lieve God sends the annoyance of our life
upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and
to clear the atmosphere of our skies. I
These annoyances are sent on us, think,
to wake US up from our lethargy. There is
nothing that makes a man SO lively as
nest of yellow jackets, and think that
these annoyances are intended to persuade
US OF the fact that this is not world for us
to stop in. II we had bed Of everything
that was attractive, and soft and easy, what
would you want of Heaven? You think
that the hollow tres sends the hornet or
sply t1,a 1aN1i1 h.
want to correct your opinion. The Lord
sent the hornet.
Then l also think these annoyances
come unon us to culture our patience. In
the gymnasium you ind upright parallel
bars-bars with holes over each other for
pegs to be put in. Then the gymnast takes
the peg in each hand and begins to climb,
one inch at a time, or two inches, and get
ting his strength cultured, reaches after a
while the ceiling. Ind it seems to me that
these annoyances in life are mortal GYM
nasum, each worry peg by which we are
to climb higher and higher in Christian
attainment We all love to see patience,
but it cannot be cultured in fair weather,
1t is child of the storm. II you had
everything desirable and there was nothing
more to get, what would you want of pa
tience2 The only time to culture it is
when you are.slandered and cheated, and
sick and half dead. "Oh," you say, "if
only had the circumstances of some we'll
to-do man, would be patient too" You
might as well say: IF it we're not for this
water l would SWIM" or, u could shoot
this gun if it were not for the caps"
When you stand chin deep in annoy
ances is the time for you to swim out to-
ward the great headlands of Christian at
tainment, and when your life is loaded to
the muzzle with repulsive annOysuces-
that is the time to draw the trigger. Moth
ing but the furnace will ever burn out of
us the clinker and the Stag. have formed
this theory in regard to small snnoyances
and Yexations: 1t takes just so much
trouble to fit ds for usefulness and for
Heaven. The only question is, whether
we shall take it in the bulk, or pulverized
and grauulated. Here is one man who
takes il in the bulk. His back is broken,
or his eyesight put out, or some other awful
Calamity befaAs him; while the vast major
ity Of people take the thing piecemeal.
Which way would you rather have it2 OF
course in piecemeal. Better have five
aching teeth than one broken jaw, Better
ten fly blisters than an amputation. Better
twenty squalls than one cyclone. There
may be difference of opinion as to allo-
pathy and homeopathy; but in this matter
of trouble like homeopathic doses-small
pellets Of annoyance rather than some
knock down dose of calamity. Instead Of
the thunderbolt gives us the hernet.
If you have bank you would q great
deal rather that fifty men should come in
with checks less than a hundred dollars,
than to have two depositors come in the
same day each wanting his ten thousand
dollars. In this latter case, you cough and
look down at the floor and up at the cell
ing before you look into the safe. Now,
my friends, would you not rather have
these small drafts Of annoyance on your
bank of faith, than some all-staggering de-
mand on your endurancep / want to
make you so strong that you will not sur
render 10 small aunoyances. In the village
of Hamelin, tradition says. there wes an in
vasion of rats, and these small creatures
almost devoured the town and threatened
the lives of the population; and the story is
that piper came out one day and played a
very sweet tune, and all the vermin fol-
lowed him-followed him to the banks of
the Weser, and then he blew q blast and
they dropped in and disappeared forever.
OF course this is a fable, but / wish
could, on the sweet flute of the Gospel,
draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing
annoyances Of your life, and play them
down into the depths forever. How many
touches did the artist give to his picture of
"Cotopaxi," or his "Heart of the Andesp"
/ suppose about $4,000 touches. hear
the canvas saying: "Why do you keep me
trembling with that pencil so longp Why
don't you put it on in ne dashPn mo-
says the artist, II know how to make
painting; it will take $4,000 of these